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Mickeyshan2018 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Sentence Structure

Hi,
What they like is smoked salmon.
Clause: What they like
Verb: is
Noun: smoked salmon
Is it right?


It was June I got married.
Q2. Clause: It was June
Clause: I got married

Could we just put these 2 clauses together without any punctuation or linking words like when etc.?

Thanks!

  

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Yes. You don't need punctuation or conjunctions. You could use a conjunction in the first, but you do not have to.

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Yes. You don't need punctuation or conjunctions. You could use a conjunction in the first, but you do not have to.

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Mickeyshan2018What they like is smoked salmon. Clause: What they like. Verb: is Noun: smoked salmon Is it right?

Not quite. “What they like” is not a clause, but a noun phrase (NP). It can be paraphrased as “That which they like”.

The sentence itself is the matrix clause, and embedded within the NP is a 'fused' relative clause.

“Smoked

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